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turn next morning they found it nearly devoured by beasts of 

 prey. 



They saw many other herds of elks, and a great variety of 

 deer, but never met with the niel ghou, or blue ox, though they 

 seem to partake much more of the deer than the ox. These animals 

 were frequently brought to Baroche and Surat as a curiosity from 

 other parts of India. 



There were no lions in that part of India; the royal tiger was 

 considered as the lord of the forest, and a more powerful animal 

 cannot easily be conceived. The adventures and escapes of our 

 sportsmen from these ferocious beasts, and their encounter with 

 boars, hyenas, and other savage monsters, highly entertained us 

 in the tents. Distance of time, and the death of three fourths of 

 the parly, deprive them of interest; I shall therefore suppress them, 

 and the observations I occasionally made on the animals in those 

 wilds; except as they coincide with a few general remarks by the 

 author of the Oriental Sports. 



Some tigers in Turcaseer were nearly as large and ferocious as 

 those in the Sunderbunds of Bengal, and were said to equal the 

 largest ever killed there, which measured fourteen feet from the 

 tip of the nose to the extremity of the tail, was four feet high at the 

 shoulder, and the circumference of his foot near the paw twenty- 

 six inches. Every action of the tiger confirms captain William- 

 son's idea, that it so closely resembles the cat, that the latter may 

 be deemed a tiger in miniature. Their motions, tempers, habits, 

 are all precisely similar; and, except in the number of young 

 usually borne at a litter, it would perhaps be difficult to point out 



